How To: DIY Cornhole

Let me paint this picture for you. It's sunny it's 75 degrees outside all your

friends are over the smell of fresh cut grass in the backyard the sound of burgers sizzling on the

grill super tense moment right as you fling your cornhole bag and you score the game-winning point

none of that is possible without cornhole boards so today let's build a set from scratch you can

find our diy download at YellaWood.com. For the materials, you'll need to the finishing touches

we're going to walk you all the way through this build this project should take you about

four hours to complete and it's a great first time project for beginners to get started you'll

need all of these things but like i said you can reference the list on our plans at yellowwood.com

for the lumber you're going to need four two by fours and a four by eight sheet

of half inch plywood all right now it's time for the fun stuff

I just inhaled so much sawdust 4x8 is way more material than we actually need for our

cornhole boards but we're not gonna waste the rest of the material we've actually got some

really cool hacks planned and we've linked those you can check them out later to get

started we're gonna take some measurements and get this thing ripped down to size

you can see where i've clamped down the level as my guide it is roughly one and a

half inches off the cut line to account for the space between the plate and the blade

as you can see that makes the perfect cut next up is cutting the frame from all the two by

fours you'll need to make four 48 inch cuts from there take two of the remaining halves and make

four 21 inch cuts with the other two halves make four 13 inch cuts and two 18 inch cuts

all of these pieces will make up the frames and support braces for your cornhole set so now that

we've finished all of our big cuts we're going to move over here and begin the assembly process

we're going to start that by measuring for some handles because we've got to carry these things

with us everywhere we go for the handles we'll start by drawing the cuts in the middle of the

two 48 inch pieces draw a six inch line from the bottom and then another four inch line centered

an inch and a quarter up from there hand draw an ease curve edge between them and as you can see

it does not need to be perfect now use this as a guide to cut with your jigsaw you can either

repeat that or trace for the second handle so i've just finished cutting out the handles but

these aren't really the best cuts in the world so i'm going to sand them up

get them looking a little better and take this opportunity to go ahead and sand all my pieces

that i've already cut so for that you can use one of these little sanding blocks but

since it's the 21st century and i don't have time for that we're going to use this a orbital palm

sander looks like a damn handful i'm going to retract my previous statement i'm going to use

this so now that we've cut our handle holes it's time to start assembling it i'm just going to

lay it out make sure it's all square and then screw it together to get that perfect alignment

i used a square and clamps to keep my frame in place while i assembled it for the hardware

be sure to use galvanized material where you can for that extra dimension of waterproofing

okay now that we've assembled the frame it's time to cut the angled supports let's hang in there

we're about fifty percent of the way done now to make the rounded top of your legs start by making

a mark one and three quarter inches down from the top and centered left to right from that mark use

your compass and draw a circle to the edge if you don't have a compass don't worry you can also use

a cup or a mug now that you've got that drawn pick up your jigsaw and get to cut so while i

have it in the clamps i'm going to go ahead and drill our 3 8 hole for our carriage bolt using

the mark that we measured earlier and then i'm going to clean it up with our orbital bomb sander

all right so one down three more to go

so at this point we've rounded the top of our legs we've drilled the hole for the carriage bolt

now the last step to do is to cut our 29 degree angle across the bottom

so that it sits flat on the floor to do that i'm going to jump back over to the chop saw

now that you've cut out the legs let's get them assembled measuring from the top of the frame

mark a point four inches down and centered on your 2x4 using your 3 8 inch drill bit make a hole here

connect the legs to the frame with a 3 8 inch carriage bolt and secure them with a washer

and wing nut as you can see i had quite a bit of trouble here but when finesse doesn't work

just use a hammer you can't be afraid to get tough with it now do it all over again on the other side

well i'll be i'm actually kind of impressed i did not think that was going to be the right

angle but it really is with the angled feet attached and ready it's time to assemble the

18 inch support beam roughly one inch above the ground surface i'm definitely struggling with that

you may be looking at this clamp any of y'all that have done this kind of stuff before and think

what in the world is he doing it's not actually clamping anything

but what i figured out is holding this board and trying to set my screw and screw it all

together at the same time requires more than the hands that i have so by clamping this here it's

actually just holding this end up for me which makes it a lot easier for me to work on this end

all right we are on the home stretch we just need to attach our top our deck and

measure and drill the hole for that uh given my work space i'm going to go ahead and attach the

deck first and then drill and measure for the hole once it's attached before you get started

make sure that all your edges are flush with your frame once you've done that you can begin

attaching with one and a half inch screws at each corner and then moving at 12 inch intervals from

there so for the location of our hole i'm gonna just make a mark at nine and twelve inches these

measurements come from the american cornhole organization so be sure to follow those if you

want to be legit i'm going to use a six inch hole saw because i had one on hand and i felt

like it'd be a bit easier but you can always use your compass and jigsaw to mark and cut the hole

now we've got some cornhole boards it's time to head to the beach

just kidding speaking of the beach we still gotta sand it

you can use a sanding block here but i think i'm gonna give the orbital another shot the main goal

with our sanding is to smooth the surface and ease any sharp edges now that we've gotten this one

all sanded up this one's done but i hope you're having fun because we got one more board to build

well that wraps up the construction process of our corn hole boards they're looking great so far

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all right let me paint this picture for you it's sunny it's 75 degrees outside great music on all

your friends are over fresh burgers hitting the grill the smell of fresh cut grass in the air

and that silky smooth voice of Eli Gold calling on the Auburn game. Oh wait war eagle i hate that god